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To: Lane3 who wrote (73019)8/22/2003 10:35:20 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486
 
I will check on that, eventually......



To: Lane3 who wrote (73019)8/22/2003 11:01:08 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486
 
Poll: Most Americans Say They're Christian
Varies Greatly From the World at Large
ABC News
Analysis
By Gary Langer
July 18

....Evangelicals

Thirty-seven percent of all Christians describe themselves as born-again or evangelical; that includes nearly half of all Protestants (47 percent), as well as a small share (14 percent) of Catholics.

Baptists again dominate: Sixty-two percent of Baptists say they're evangelical Christians, compared to 46 percent of all other Protestant denominations combined, and 37 percent of nondenominational Protestants.

Evangelism soars particularly among blacks, and southerners: Two-thirds of blacks describe themselves as evangelical or born-again Christians, double the share of whites who do so. And 55 percent of Christians in the South say they're born-again, compared to 21 percent in the Northeast, 26 percent in the Midwest and 31 percent in the West.

Lower-income Christians also are more apt to be evangelicals. Among those with household incomes under $35,000, 45 percent are evangelicals; among those with higher incomes this declines to 31 percent. ....

abcnews.go.com



To: Lane3 who wrote (73019)8/22/2003 11:20:02 AM
From: The Philosopher  Respond to of 82486
 
It depends on who's counting, who you count, and who you define as evangelical. The term is slippery.



To: Lane3 who wrote (73019)8/22/2003 11:21:14 AM
From: The Philosopher  Respond to of 82486
 
Probably research done by the same team that found that 93% of the reporters working for the nation's top 50 newspapers are liberals.